Marginal Damage of Methane Emissions: Ozone Impacts on Agriculture

Methane directly contributes to air pollution, as an ozone precursor, and to climate change, generating physical and economic damages to different systems, namely agriculture, vegetation, energy, human health, or biodiversity. The methane-related damages to climate, measured as the Social Cost of Me...

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Published in:Environmental & resource economics 2023-04, Vol.84 (4), p.1095-1126
Main Authors: Sampedro, Jon, Waldhoff, Stephanie, Sarofim, Marcus, Van Dingenen, Rita
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural economics
Agriculture
Air pollution
Biodiversity
Climate change
Cost benefit analysis
Crop damage
Crops
economic damages
Economic Policy
Economics
Economics and Finance
Emissions
Environmental Economics
Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice
Environmental Management
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Humans
Impact damage
integrated assessment
Methane
Ozone
Revenue
Vegetation
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Summary:Methane directly contributes to air pollution, as an ozone precursor, and to climate change, generating physical and economic damages to different systems, namely agriculture, vegetation, energy, human health, or biodiversity. The methane-related damages to climate, measured as the Social Cost of Methane, and to human health have been analyzed by different studies and considered by government rulemaking in the last decades, but the ozone-related damages to crop revenues associated to methane emissions have not been incorporated to policy agenda. Using a combination of the Global Change Analysis Model and the TM5-FASST Scenario Screening Tool, we estimate that global marginal agricultural damages range from ~ 423 to 556 $2010/t-CH 4 , of which 98 $2010/t-CH 4 occur in the USA, which is the most affected region due to its role as a major crop producer, followed by China, EU-15, and India. These damages would represent 39–59% of the climate damages and 28–64% of the human health damages associated with methane emissions by previous studies. The marginal damages to crop revenues calculated in this study complement the damages from methane to climate and human health, and provides valuable information to be considered in future cost-benefits analyses.
ISSN:0924-6460
1573-1502
DOI:10.1007/s10640-022-00750-6